Completed projects

Project goal: Training of 70 LTOs/coordinators and 26 lawyers in observing and identifying electoral violations during the campaign period of 2017 Parliamentary Elections.
Receiving a clear picture of the campaign period of parliamentary elections 2017 through long-term observation conducted in all regions and electoral districts of Armenia.

Project goal: To build a strong network of domestic observer organizations and individual observers from all regions of Armenia.
To develop the capacities of 250 non-partisan women and men in observing elections.
To promote statistical approach to election observation to identify electoral tendencies and practices.

To study recommendations and observations made by international election missions since 2003, including OSCE/ODIHR, PACE, EP, and others,
To analyze their role in electoral reforms and the impact of those changes on future elections.
To contribute to increase of effectiveness of international observation missions.

Project goal: Hold observation capacity-building trainings in cooperation with partner organizations in the Project target marzes (regions) and Yerevan.
Create a database of trained observers and involve them in the observation of the council of elders elections in Vanadzor and Gyumri on October 2, 2016.

Goal: study the recommendations and observations of the international observation missions at the elections starting from 2003 and particularly those of OSCE/ODIHR, PACE, CoE, Venice Commission and other institutions by analyzing their role in electoral reforms and the impact of those changes on the results of subsequent elections.

Latest Events

The negative attitude of the Russian Federation towards the Platform is due to the revelations by Golos Association, which is a Russian member of the Platform. Those revelations always expose electoral fraud and violations in the RF. Golos was labelled a “foreign agent” by the RF Ministry of Justice yet in 2014, and the persecution and restrictions against its members as well as the attempts to discredit them are of a continuous nature.

The NGO would like to express concern on this issue and also state that it will continue the implementation of human rights defender’s, healthcare and charity missions set before the NGO in accordance with the International legal acts and as provided for by RA legislation and in-state legal acts.

On 13 March 2018, the European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE), a civil society network of independent election observation organizations, and its Lithuanian member International Elections Study Center (IESC) were classified as “undesirable organizations” by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

In an interview with Tert.am, Chairperson of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office Artur Sakunts details what he meant and which political forces he meant when stating that secret messages are sent from Yerevan to international organizations, denying their, i.e. human rights defenders’ and personally his, i.e. Artur Sakunts’ assessment about Karo Yeghnukyan, Andrias Ghukasyan, Zhirayr Sefilyan, Shant and his friends being political prisoners

In conclusion, the inadequate research conducted by Lydian, and its inexperience in the mining field as well as the financial shortcomings to counteract these resulting environmental issues, make the Amulsar mining operation a high risk project, which should be reconsidered by officials and investors.

We, members of the OSCE-wide NGO coalition Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP), express our deepest concern over the reported wave of tortures, ill-treatment, and enforced disappearance of activists of the anti-fascist movement in Russia committed by Russian Federal Security Service in recent months.

On February 15, 2018 the Court of General Jurisdiction of Lori Province ruled to assign a complex forensic and military medical examination in connection with the case of conscript T. M., who did not leave to start military service because of disagreeing with the decision of the Central Medical Commission.

Today there are a number of legal mechanisms of disputing Armen Sargsyan’s legitimacy in the post of President one of which is that the Human Rights Defender may apply to the Constitutional Court. Such an observation was made by human rights defender and Chairperson of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office Artur Sakunts. The organization headed by him is among a number of organizations that released a statement in the press about Armen Sargsyan not being a legitimate president.